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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 7:37:46 PM

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Tithe; I have go make sure the jeep engine compartment is safe

then off to the fitness center.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 7:42:56 PM

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Brethren: we are rapidly closing on 400 pages for The Thread!!!

Post, for the Glory of The Thread!!!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:46:31 PM

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one hour later - no more posts... that went over well...

Meanwhile, in Seattle, Nik has finally solved the problem of his GF Mk I Unit's feline companions...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:50:12 PM

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Alas... Poor kitty...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:53:02 PM

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Alas... Poor kitty...

Don't feel too sorry for it... Nik had baited the trap with another set of stereo headphone cords...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:54:12 PM

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That was sarcasm, Robert...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:54:59 PM

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That was sarcasm, Robert...

EDIT: Well, it did provide the opening for the stereo headphone remark...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:58:55 PM

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Here's an odd-looking aircraft, but a cool one. I'm almost tempted to shoehorn it into my mod.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 8:59:31 PM

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Well, that wasn't much of anything...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:04:31 PM

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Here's an odd-looking aircraft, but a cool one. I'm almost tempted to shoehorn it into my mod.

You going to put BOTH planes the USAAF ordered in there?

This looks sorta like the Howard Hughes plane - the one that almost killed him when somehow one of the propellors reversed itself in midflight... That one at least had a couple of prototypes finished...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:04:45 PM

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Looks like a Cutisserchmit cu262 to me

With proppelers..........

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:07:23 PM

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The XP-71 was supposed to be a heavy escort fighter, armed with two 37mm guns and a 75mm(!) gun...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:08:02 PM

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Waiting for my turns.
I need my fix :)

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:09:37 PM

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Hmm... i misrembered it - XF-11 sorta looks like an overgrown P-38, but it did have the contrarotating propellors...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:11:54 PM

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XF-11, a high-altitude recon plane, had a contract for 100 aircraft, but was cancelled in 1946...

EDIT:
Specs:
Specifications (XF-11)
General Characteristics
Crew: two, pilot and navigator/photographer
Length: 65 ft 5 in (19.94 m)
Wingspan: 101 ft 4 in (30.89 m)
Height: 23 ft 2 in (7.06 m)
Wing area: 983 ft� (91.4 m�)
Empty: 37,100 lb (16,864 kg)
Loaded: lb ( kg)
Maximum takeoff: 58,300 lb (26,500 kg)
Powerplant: 2x Pratt & Whitney R-4360-31 radials, 3,000 hp (2,238 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 450 mph (720 km/h)
Range: 5,000 miles (8,000 km)
Service ceiling: 44,000 ft (13,415 m)

Other sources give CRUISE speed of 450 mph, max speed 450+, ceiling 45000 feet.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:14:30 PM

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The XP-71 was supposed to be a heavy escort fighter, armed with two 37mm guns and a 75mm(!) gun...

Curious, that sounds like armament more suited to an interceptor. ON an escort I would rather have something like 8 .50 caliber.

Point being your shooting at smaller, less durable, but faster targets.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:15:59 PM

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And the heavier guns would have a much lower ROF, which would make them much less useful against interceptors.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:23:30 PM

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And the heavier guns would have a much lower ROF, which would make them much less useful against interceptors.

Maybe that was one of the reasons it was cancelled before the prototypes were completed.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:23:41 PM

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Glory to the Thread.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:25:31 PM

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Glory to the Thread.

Welcome back - how was the TnT match?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:32:34 PM

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The poor underpenguins kept the English off for 83 out of 90 minutes, and then lost 0 - 2! Felt bad for them...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:34:13 PM

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I felt sorry for them as well.....sort of.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:34:51 PM

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You lying waterfowl!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:37:42 PM

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To be frank....we were rubbish........and I did feel a little sorry for them as I opened the champagne......

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:38:37 PM

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Well, at least the English team scored their goals themselves this match...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:39:53 PM

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By that match we'll need all the help we can get........

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:41:02 PM

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Well that's what happens when you let a Swede coach your team...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:43:08 PM

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To be frank....we were rubbish........and I did feel a little sorry for them as I opened the champagne......

Yeah, about as sorry as you felt for Speedy troops on Wake...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:47:56 PM

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Funny......I didn't feel sorry for them at all as I opened the Champagne.......ok just wine....as in reality I lost that battle.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/16/2006 9:50:00 PM

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Funny......I didn't feel sorry for them at all as I opened the Champagne.......ok just wine....as in reality I lost that battle.....

i think you won the land battle (thus the reference to the troops).

The naval battle - no!

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